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8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet

(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes, beyond the hype and lies, “what has WikiLeaks actually done?”]

Posted 06 January 2011 § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Web War I: The War to End All Warz?

On Sunday, I did a post about the WikiLeaks situation where I mentioned the possibility of the world’s first true “cyber-war” as one likely outcome, citing the denial service of attacks on the WikiLeaks site as the first salvo and mentioning the plans of the hactivist group, Anonymous , to retaliate. That indeed came to […]

Posted 09 December 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

In the Country of Anythink

The Anythink Library system in Adams County Colorado made waves after a major shift over the last decade where pretty much every aspect of the library – from classification (no Dewey) to fines (they have none) to job titles (Wouldn’t you rather be a “wrangler” than a clerk?) was changed. As someone who’s very interested […]

Posted 07 December 2010 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

WikiLeaks: Free Speech, Cyberwar 1.0 and Corporate Control of the Cloud

WikiLeaks (which is down as I write this for reasons I’ll get to) is a site that’s been around since 2006 and first got a mention on this blog just over a year ago for a library-related story. Since then, the site has released two fairly large dumps of information obtained from a single army […]

Posted 05 December 2010 § Library § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

What if the Largest Countries Had the Largest Populations?

A fun graphic which matches the list of “Largest Countries in the World (geography)” against the list of “Largest Countries in the World (population)” So, for example, Russia (largest by geography) would be home to the people of China (largest by population.) Interestingly, a couple countries (including the US which is 4th in the world […]

Posted 16 November 2010 § Politics § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – One World Trade Center (September 2010)

Posted 11 September 2010 § Politics § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: ,